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Apprenticeship Indenture, Ann Jenking
(Printed form with handwritten insertions, shown
in italics)
This Indenture made the Fifteenth Day of March in the
twenty third Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George
the Third by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and
Ireland, King Defender of the Faith, and so forth; and in the Year of
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty three Witnesseth,
That Hugh BROWN Church-Warden of the Parish of
Perran-Arworthal in the County of Cornwall And
Nicholas EADDY Overseer of the Poor of the said Parish, by and with
the consent of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace of the said
County whose Names are hereunto subscribed, have put and placed,
and by these Presents do put and place, Ann JENKING aged 10 years,
a poor Child of the said Parish, Apprentice to Richard SARAH of the
said Parish Yeoman with him to dwell and serve from the
Day of the Date of these Presents, until the said Apprentice shall
accomplish her full age of twenty one years or time of
marriage according to the Statute in that Case made and provided.
DURING all which Term the said Apprentice her said Master
faithfully shall serve in all lawful Business, according to her
Power, Wit and Ability; and honestly, orderly and obediently, in all
Things demean and behave her self, towards her said Master
and all his during the said Term. And the said Richard
SARAH for him self, his Executors and
Administrators, doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said
Church-Wardens and Overseers, and every of them, their, and every of
their Executors and Administrators, and their and every of their
Successors, for the Time being, by these Presents, That the said Ann
JENKING the said Apprentice in the Art of Housewifry shall and will
teach and Instruct or cause to be taught and Instructed And shall
and will during all the Term aforesaid, find, provide and allow, unto
the said Apprentice, meet, competent and sufficient Meat, Drink and
Apparel, Lodging, Washing, and all other Things necessary and fit for an
Apprentice. And also shall and will so provide for the said Apprentice,
that she be not any way a Charge to the said Parish, or
Parishioners of the same, but of and from all Charge shall and will save
the said Parish and Parishioners harmless and indemnified during the
said Term. IN WITNESS whereof, the Parties abovesaid to these present
Indentures interchangeably have put their Hands and Seals the Day and
Year above written.
Seal’d & deliver’d
in the Presence of
Richard SARAH (signed)
Richard CORNISH (signed)
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We whose Names are subscribed, Justices
of the Peace of the County aforesaid
do
consent to the putting forth of the
abovesaid Ann JENKING
Apprentice,
according to the Intent and
Meaning of
the above
Indenture
Tho. GLYNN (signed)
S SANDYS (signed) |
N.B. Words in italics are
insertions in a printed form, those in brackets and italics are inserted
by the transcriber
Source:- LDS Film No. 1596395
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